EXCERPT: “Winona’s Housing Task Force has finalized a list of recommendations intended to help the city meet its current and future housing challenges. The task force has spent much of this year working on the so-called Financial Toolbox, which is being sent to the Winona City Council for ratification, and which specifically addresses the need for affordable housing for people who live and work in Winona. According to Nick Larson, the city’s community development specialist, roughly two-thirds of people who work in Winona live outside of the city — not necessarily because they wish to live elsewhere, but because they can’t find housing here. The Financial Toolbox seeks to fix that imbalance in several ways.” FULLSTORY: http://bit.ly/2gQmiXs